Row with a View

The front row at a fashion week

You could do a stellar collection at fashion week but if your front row wasn’t impressive enough, your work would likely fade into obscurity. So designers scurry about with invites for the ‘visible’ people. The front row is usually made up of three kinds of fashion VIPs—media (not any old media, just the top fashion glossies; the rest are relegated to the second and third rows), buyers and friends-and-family of the designer on show. The designer will also typically pick people from this row to wear his outfits. At the present fashion show, a socialite with a day job as a columnist was heard bragging about the number of outfits she had collected thus, but, oh, how to decide, whom to oblige? Fascinated, this photographer decided to turn his gaze away from the ramp, towards the hot seats.

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